However, Cobb had already mentally crossed the threshold by accepting Saito’s proposal, so the assembling of the team is part of the mission. Entering the dream is certainly a way of the crossing of the threshold into the ‘Special World’. around 44:30, just before they actually enter the dream.
This is a short Act One and some may argue that the Act doesn’t really end until the team is assembled, i.e. Guarantee! Saito: Leap of faith or old man.Ģ1.00 Assemble your team Mr.
Then I choose to leave.Ģ0.00 How would you like to go home? Can’t fix that. Buenos Aires.ġ8.30 Saito has offer: architect’s safety in return for a job.ġ9.00 Inception explained. Phone call from his kids.ġ7.30 Arthur knocks: our ride is on the roof. (6mins)ġ5.30 Cobb at home, spins a top on the table. Sequence B: (all WAKE) Offered a job by Saito: Inception.
After only fifteen minutes into the movie, we have learned a lot, without at any point having the feeling that we’re ticking off a list of expository items. Rather than tagging an opening action sequence before the start of Cobb’s story (as we see in e.g. The Matrix), Nolan works the action hook into this story in a fascinating, intelligent and at the same time elegant way. The first sequence sets up Cobb’s thieving life (Ordinary World), as well as his character (the best dream extractor) and his flaw (Mal). Fake: still dreaming! I’m impressed!ġ4.30 (WAKE) Debrief in the train. You failed.ġ2.30 (WAKE) Team sleeping in train, timer set, music plays, waking up.ġ3.00 (DL1) Cobb throws Saito on rug. Team decide to give him ‘the kick’ in bathtub.ġ1.00 (DL2) Cobb drowns in building, water shooting in through windows.ġ1.30 (DL1) Saito attacks Cobb, holds him at gunpoint. Dream collapses.Ġ9.30 (DL2) Saito has an empty envelope, Cobb has the documents from the safe.ġ0.00 (DL1) Cobb won’t wake up. Stopped by Saito & Mal.Ġ8.00 (DL2) Saito knows they’re dreaming, they have Arthur, shoot his leg. Cobb climbs out of room, re-enters building.Ġ7.00 (DL2) Kills a guard, goes in to take envelope out of the safe. “What’s going on up there?”Ġ4.30 (DL1) Saito and Cobb’s team are asleep.Ġ5.30 (DL2) Wife Mal shows up. (15mins)Ġ2.30 (Dream Level 2) Saito having dinner, Cobb explains extraction, sells services.Ġ4.00 Arthur: He knows. Thank you!Ġ0.30 Cobb wakes up on a beach, sees his kids, is taken away at gunpoint.Ġ1.30 With old man (Saito), who says: “I knew a man, possessed of some radical notions.”ĪCT ONE Sequence A: Cobb at work.
I’d be grateful if you could let me know in the comments. Have a look for yourself and see if I have left out any major moment. It moves so fast it is virtually impossible to get every beat down accurately. The only real problem I still have is getting the last act right. If my life hadn’t suddenly hit the accelerator over the past few weeks, I would have easily posted a breakdown in the first week of release. I watched it a third time and took detailed notes with a view to publishing this breakdown.
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I loved the movie enough to see it again in the same week at a standard theater (where the projection was flawless). The experience was sensational but not perfect, because the projection was marred by an error in the IMAX print’s aspect ratio, resulting in a picture of which the height was about 9% squeezed. My first viewing of Inception was at the world’s largest IMAX screen in Sydney’s Darling Harbour. The movie has an aura of complexity but when you examine the dramatic structure carefully, it is deceptively simple. It’s by far the most talked-about movie of the year, because of its high concept and intelligent execution.
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